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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1914
Page
5
Dr Wing claims painless extractions with no after effects and no danger of catching cold in the gums. He guarantees fillings crowns and bridges, backed by fifteen years of experience. The office emphasizes kindness and thoroughness and is permanently located over Alma State Savings Bank. From now until Christmas is a slow period, but after will be busy.
A vintage Christmas verse portrays cozy village lights and stockings while a family reflects on loss and charity. A child named Luther visits, asking for a merry Christmas and imagining the Christ Child entering their home, while memories of a mother in heaven soften the night.
A terse verse passage calls a child to approach as a door shuts and a mother’s bond is joined with a father’s claim The speaker invokes a celestial ray linking maternal love with paternal possession in a stark dramatic moment
The poem recalls autumn and Christmas in a nostalgic tone. It celebrates the changing seasons and the honor of hardy sailors, praising resilience, festive cheer, and the kingly season’s welcome with a lively chorus.
A festive poem describes creating a Christmas animal from produce such as a large yellow squash for the body four large carrots for the bulk of the neck a long slender carrot for the neck a white turnip with a red base for the head two carrot slices for ears cranberries for eyes and a toothpick comb. Additional adornments include a collar of toothpicks parsley tail and various smaller edible animals as decorations using onions raisins cloves and potatoes as ornaments.
Warwick James Price presents a festive verse and a home recipe for Christmas pudding. The prose verse urges kindness and joy, while the pudding instructions detail butter, brown sugar, flour, milk, breadcrumbs, raisins, currants, walnuts, lemon rind, and nutmeg steamed for four hours with optional egg shell censer and holly garnish.
The Gratiot County Medical Association met at the Wright House parlor with twenty of twenty five doctors present. Dr. J. H. Myers of Saginaw delivered a paper and officers were elected: President Dr. Earl Faust Ithaca Vice President Dr. Cyrus Gardner Alma Secretary Treasurer Dr. E M Highfield Riverdale The group voted to continue monthly meetings.
The report notes that only 7 percent of last season's 400 fires in Utah, southern Idaho, western Wyoming, and Nevada caused losses over 100 dollars. Virginia leads in wood usage for boxes and crates, followed by New York, Massachusetts, and California. The text mentions eastern mistletoe familiarity and western forest damage from a parasite, ranking it after fire and insects. The western regions face significant damage where trees are reported.
The account lists a feasting menu with items such as salmon venison and wild game served in vast quantities. It mentions numerous archaic or misspelled foods like honey wildfowl sauces and varied puddings plus fruit pies and custard.
The first girls basketball game of the season will be played at Lakeview on Friday evening as the High school team journeys there. The monthly banquet of the debating club was held last Friday evening at the High school with a regular business meeting before the banquet.
The town's Christmas carols will be sung at the municipal tree as rehearsals proceed. School closes December 23 for holiday vacation and resumes January 6. Seniors plan a February gym fair to boost their Annual fund. Debates, sickness absences, junior and sophomore class parties, chapel by Rev. Priest on Character, and chaperoned senior party details are noted.
County Drain Commissioner EB W Redman will receive bids December 2 1914 for Drain No 821 in Seville township Gratiot County Michigan. Description covers long survey of the drain route with stakes, grades, sectioning, and requirements including two highway bridges and right of way. Also announces review of assessments for benefits and lands in the No 321 drain district with parcel descriptions and dates.
Public notice from Gratiot County 1914 by County Drain Commissioner Re Redman. Describes land parcels and owners in Township of Seville for the No 221 Drain construction and assessment review. Executors named and hearing time and place set for bids from nine to five, with opportunities to be heard on special assessments and land interests.
In Gratiot County Michigan a circuit court order requires defendants and unknown heirs to appear within five months or have the bill confessed. Publication of the order in Alma Record is mandated for six weeks. The suit seeks to quiet title to land in Arcada Township described as part of the southeast quarter of section 18 north and west of Pine River.
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